心路历程--拒绝

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心路历程--教训

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心路历程--成功

Dear Friends:In this column I would like to discuss a delicate subject: "Success" . Many letters received from Chinese readers raise questions concerning success and what it means to lead successful lives.1. Happiness comes from within.     

心路历程--逝

We are what survives of us.Dear Friends, My past columns have concerned various aspects of life. This is because life is common to all of us. Life is what we experience every minute of every day. It may be hard for some to accept, but there is something else that we all share in common regardless(不管,不顾)of where we live or what we believe. Each of us is perishable(容易腐烂的).Our lives willterminate(停止,终结)in dying.     

心路历程--食物

Dear Friends, This column is devoted to food.This is one of the topics that we think aboutand talk about and write about and worry about the most.It takes up much timeand space in all of our lives.It is one of the greatest sources of human enjoymentand one of the greatest sources of human anxiety. Eating is one of our fondest pleasures.It is a necessity of nature.Food enables us to survive.Everyone eats,every person,every animal,even plants must absorb food.An automobile cannot run without fuel,and human beings cannot live without food.In primitive soci     

心路历程--新年

Dear Friends, Your editor in China, Richard, asked me to write an article about the New Year in America. In my columns I deliberately (故意地) avoid writing about life in America. This is for travel a-gents or professional politicians or journalists to do. Instead I prefer to write about matters of universal concern. My columns have been on topics such as life and death, humor, poetry, animals, time, education, peace, and aging. These subjects have resulted in a popular response from our Chinese     

谚语--心路历程

亲爱的朋友们: 今天让我们来思考一下谚语的问题,谚语是智慧的集中体现,它们与机智、经验、观点、忠告以及多种文化的健全心智密切相关。它们告诉我们什么是人类的感情和弱点,为我们未来的行为和较好的人际关系提供指导和帮助。它们往往简洁明了,富于哲理。有时,为了传达微妙的真理和行为的准则,它们还需要机智幽默,妙语联珠。在世界的每一个地方,都能发现谚语哲学。不管发生什么样的戏剧性变化,谚     

心路历程--外科手术

一生之中,我们成长的过程就是不断超越自己的过程。不同的经历、不同的体验让我们的生活变得更加丰富,也让我们更加珍惜生活的每一个成功、每一个挫折所带来的感受。     

心路历程-问题

Dear Friends, This column,the ninth in our series,deals with Prob—lems.These should be familiar to all of us.Problems are im-portant ingredients1 in our existence.If there were no problems,every day would end at the moment we awake in the morning.Therewould be no meal times,no work times.no leisure time2.Problemsprovide the stimulin3 that add substance and excitement to our lives. Problems can be our best friends.They stimulate our imaginationand challenge our assumptions4.We would be lonely without them.Aworld without problems would be a dull,predictable,and emptyplace.Problems are as indispensable as air!     

心路历程--流逝的岁月

Old age gives us the privilege to explore, to innovate, to challenge.Dear Friends,This is our twelfth monthly column and the first-year anniversary of our conversation together in the pages of Overseas English. We call this a milestone in English. Is there a Chinese word for it?I would like to begin our column with one of my own poems.     

心路历程--时间

This is our seventh column. Itis a delight to be able to sharethoughts with you. Let me begin with     

心路历程--关于爱情

Dear Friends,I recently learned that February 14th is celebrated inChina as qing ren jie.In America we call this Valentine’sDay and dedicate it to romantic love.Because of this I havebeen asked to devote this month’s column to Love.This is avery complicated subject,and not easy to write about.Thereare no experts.Terms are ambiguous,and there are wide cu-tural differences in our approach to the subject of Love.     

心路历程--和平(二)

Dear Friends,Many of you have written letters to me expressing your concerns over all the wars and violence that continue to exist in this world. I share your concerns. We are living on a very combustible(易燃的) planet.Instead of becoming obsolete(荒废的,遗弃的), wars seem to be as common as theyever were. We have written much about this formidable(可怕的,令人敬畏的)topic     

心路历程--单词

Welcome to our eleventh column. It is said that when Confucius was asked what his first deed would be if he were to be made Emperor of China, he replied, "I would re-establish the precise meaning of words."Our lives are filled with words. These are the wordswe read, the words we speak, and the words we listen to or try not tolisten to.Words govern our lives.     

CONVICTION AND COMMITMENT,WIT AND WISDOM: THE GIFT OF JOSEPHINE VAN DYKE BROWNSON

While wandering through the recesses of history one occasionally stumbles upon relatively uncelebrated persons whose contributions to the quality of life and faith of a given population merit attention.     

RELIGION AND THE FREEDOM OF THE MIND

The conference did not, of course, attempt to arrive at a consensus upon neat answers to the questions raised. Any summary would be inadequate, outstanding impressions would include:

The violations of freedom of the mind inflicted by religion were frankly faced

Narrow and restrictive loyalties other than religious were also charged with violations

Complete freedom of the mind was seriously challenged as being humanly impossible

Commitment to high religion was commended as not incompatible with human freedom

The strengthening of positive religious conviction was urged as the essential foundation of a society in which freedom might endure